Silicon Valley is well represented in Barron's new list of "Most Respected Companies."
Apple leads the list, with one quote pointing out that you could have slept through the last few years and looked at Apple's stock performance and never realized we went through a recession.
Johnson and Johnson was number two - that company has a diabetes research center in Milpitas.
Google and Cisco were 8 and 9.
Here's the list:
1. Apple
2. Johnson & Johnson
3. Procter and Gamble
4. IBM
5. Berkshire Hathaway
6. Toyota Motor
7. McDonalds
8. Google
9. Cisco
10. Amazon
The strange one is Toyota - but note this list is based on a survey of money managers that was done some months ago.
The biggest one year climb was Google, from 23 last year to 8, the biggest fall was General Electric, from 43 to 74. It was No. 1 in 2005.
